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The purpose of this feature would be creating a master Pureref file that could reference other Pureref files, which would be very useful when working in a team.
For example if I created a new Pureref file (the master) and dragged a different Pureref file onto the canvas, it would ask me if I wanted to reference that file instead of opening it.
If I chose to "reference it" the whole canvas and its contents would be loaded into the Master Pureref as a reference, meaning that it could not be modified from the Master but also that any changes in the referenced pureref file would be propagated to the master file, perhaps with a refresh button so that the person viewing the Master could update the referenced Pureref canvases in real time. That way several people could be working on different Pureref canvases at the same time, these would all be referenced and combined into a single master Pureref, which could be used to view all of the files/canvases at once and also allowing the files to be worked on while viewed.

Thanks for the suggestion! It's not quite as powerful as you would like, but you can reference other .pur files via hyperlinks in notes. If you write some text, select it and then press the "Insert link" button, you can browse for a local file. If you select a .pur file it will be automatically loaded when you click that link.

Many thanks for replying and for the suggestion! I hope you can consider the reference system in the future :)

can the linked file be opened in a NEW "pureref" instance somehow?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-01-15 10:26 by sb0.

Yes, Ctrl+Alt+Left click should open it in a new PureRef window if it is a .pur link. (just clicking the link should provide the options in a tooltip)

thanks, did the job!
s.

but if I link to eg. an openoffice document
(.odt on windows is associated with "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program\soffice.exe")
I get ...

probably because I've the "- - -" in the dir name or so

Could not open link.
Source not found. ("A:\- - - - C - PUBS with Files ----\WordPress\WordPress.odt")

hm, no, tested with ... (same)
Could not open link.
Source not found. ("C:\temp\test.odt")

That's strange, there's no permission issues with that file? We gave it a try and it seems to work for us. Does it work for other file types?

By the way, there shouldn't be any quotes around the path, maybe that's the issue?

sorry! my fault, windows always copies the path with " and ", and I was too fast 8-/ so pasted the file-link with the quotation marks
best,
s.

No worries, glad to hear it was an easy fix! :)

of course it really would be be great if pureref automatically
removes " " " " in the windows version

as these characters are not supported
by the windows filesystem anyway

so using "Copy as Path" from the windows explorer
would work out of the box - without the additional step removing 2 x the "
in the input box

best,
s

Good idea, we'll see what we can do!

thanks
s.